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Professor Gunilla Karlsson Hedestam at the Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology (MTC) at Karolinska Institutet, receives a PO1 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

The European Molecular Biology Organization, EMBO, announced on May 7th that 106 distinguished researchers in the life sciences were newly elected to membership in the organisation.

KI-researchers Jorge Ruas and Ana Teixeira receive a Human Frontiers Science Program Young Investigator Award.

Meeting a deaf baby caused Eva Karltorp to dare to question the established treatment of congenital deafness. Now the majority of deaf children can talk as well as those with hearing.

Researchers from Karolinska Institutet present a new protein mechanism in an article in PNAS that may help to improve blood flow in a tissue in the event of low oxygen levels for example following a stroke. The hope now is that these new findings can be used conversely in the development of anti-cancer medicines.